Happy New Year! Here, Have a Hat!

Happy New Year! I spent all my blogging hiatus/holidays (well, it felt like all my blogging hiatus/holidays) cleaning up my office/sewing room, and in the process I found this:

It's a pattern for this hat:

Pretty cool, huh? I have absolutely NO idea where it came from, but it came to light as I shoveled through piles of paper. So I ran it down to Fedex and their nice large-bed scanners and got it digitized for y'all. Here's a PDF to download.

If you make it, send me a picture! Veil optional. (Extra points if you make in gold lame for that chic nimbus effect.)

Hahaha! I, too, immediately thought of Whoopi Goldberg when I saw this hat. Then images of renaissance fairs tripped across my mind’s eye. Still, it is a lovely chapeau. Happy New Year, and thanks for the hat.

I just printed the pattern for the staff of our museum and library to have as one of our choices for an upcoming hat making day. We are going to wear hats, including our hand crafted ones, in support of an exhibit called “Hang on to Your Hats: Hats from the Collection of the Fort Morgan Museum”